[0.76] Bump Kotlin to 1.9.25 to mitigate #49115

[cortinico]

Summary:

This is a change to attempt mitigating:

• [0.75][0.76] HAS FIX - React Native Android Build error - zip END header not found - INDIA Only #49115

Changelog:

[ANDROID] [CHANGED] - Bump Kotlin to 1.9.25

Test Plan:

CI

[riteshshukla04]

Hey @cortinico , We also need to update the template for build.gradle. Right?

[riteshshukla04]

Also can we have a fix for 0.75 stable too? I can raise a PR if needed

[cortinico]

Hey @cortinico , We also need to update the template for build.gradle. Right?

Yes that's done here: react-native-community/template#102

Also can we have a fix for 0.75 stable too? I can raise a PR if needed

I'm not 100% sure that this will fix the problem for good actually, so I'd like to suggest we do 0.76 first and then do also .75 afterwards if we have a confirmation that it fixes the issue

[riteshshukla04]

My project uses 0.75.2 . And this fixed the issue. riteshshukla04/React-native-zip-header-repro@de19abb

Please check the commit above. Also this fix has been confirmed by some users .

[cortinico]

My project uses 0.75.2 . And this fixed the issue. riteshshukla04/React-native-zip-header-repro@de19abb

Please check the commit above. Also this fix has been confirmed by some users .

I've tried your project @riteshshukla04 but I can build it correctly also without your fix commit

[riteshshukla04]

This is strange. I cant even run a new RN 0.75 cli project without this kotlin change . I honestly have no idea about this RCA. It just works :)

[riteshshukla04]

After reverting my fix

[cortinico]

That's what I'm seeing:

Untitled.mov

[riteshshukla04]

test.mov

This is my perspective. . I am not sure what can be done in this case. @cortinico

[cortinico]

@riteshshukla04 could you run ./gradlew clean --info --stacktrace and share the output here?

[riteshshukla04]

gradle_log.txt

@cortinico PFA

[cortinico]

@riteshshukla04 could you try to:

rm -rf ~/.gradle/caches/

and let me know if the issue is gone? We might just want to recommend this command as remediation.

[riteshshukla04]

@cortinico I tired removing entire ~/.gradle the issue persist until I change RNGP or Kotlin version.

[cortinico]

@cortinico I tired removing entire ~/.gradle the issue persist until I change RNGP or Kotlin version.

mmm I see. Could you share the content of the folder located in:

~/.gradle/caches/modules-2/files-2.1/org.jetbrains.kotlin.jvm/org.jetbrains.kotlin.jvm.gradle.plugin/1.9.24/

specifically there should be a .pom file that contains the same as the following:

https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/jetbrains/kotlin/jvm/org.jetbrains.kotlin.jvm.gradle.plugin/1.9.24/org.jetbrains.kotlin.jvm.gradle.plugin-1.9.24.pom

[riteshshukla04]

@cortinico It contains two folder one contains JAR file and one pom file

[riteshshukla04]

But I can see that versions like 1.9.25 , 2.0.21 contains one folder with .pom file . And build works on this version. Could this be the case

[riteshshukla04]

@cortinico I removed both the folders for 1.9.24 . It downloaded only the JAR file and not the pom file . Even tried manually replacing the jar with pom . but still it goes downloading the jar file

[cortinico]

It downloaded only the JAR file and not the pom file . Even tried manually replacing the jar with pom . but still it goes downloading the jar file

Ok a couple of follow ups here:

1. Can you share what's the content of the .jar. It's going to be a text file most likely.
2. Are you under a proxy/vpn of any sort? Does your company has a repository mirror?

[riteshshukla04]

Oops . I think I found the RCA . The JAR file contains an HTML saying that it is blocked by Ministry of electronics India. Thats why it is not working for me (and most of the complaints were from India).

Thank you @cortinico .
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0"/><style>body{margin:0px;padding:0px;}iframe{width:100%;height:100%}</style><iframe src="http://210.57.203.2:8080/webadmin/deny/dot.html" width="100%" height="100%" frameborder=0></iframe>

[cortinico]

Oops . I think I found the RCA . The JAR file contains an HTML saying that it is blocked by Ministry of electronics India. Thats why it is not working for me (and most of the complaints were from India).

Thank you @cortinico . <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0"/><style>body{margin:0px;padding:0px;}iframe{width:100%;height:100%}</style><iframe src="http://210.57.203.2:8080/webadmin/deny/dot.html" width="100%" height="100%" frameborder=0></iframe>

Yup that was my suspect. Not sure why they blocked that particular resource. I suspect they tried to tear down some website or product, and they were too 'greedy' in doing it.

Anyway I've posted an official update here: #49115 (comment)

We'll follow-up with releases for 0.76 first and 0.75 after (most likely next week)

[riteshshukla04]

Oops . I think I found the RCA . The JAR file contains an HTML saying that it is blocked by Ministry of electronics India. Thats why it is not working for me (and most of the complaints were from India).
Thank you @cortinico . <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0"/><style>body{margin:0px;padding:0px;}iframe{width:100%;height:100%}</style><iframe src="http://210.57.203.2:8080/webadmin/deny/dot.html" width="100%" height="100%" frameborder=0></iframe>

Yup that was my suspect. Not sure why they blocked that particular resource. I suspect they tried to tear down some website or product, and they were too 'greedy' in doing it.

Anyway I've posted an official update here: #49115 (comment)

We'll follow-up with releases for 0.76 first and 0.75 after (most likely next week)

Thanks @cortinico for helping with RCA 🚀